Captain Arthur Phillip & The First Fleet Arriving At Botany Bay -January 1788

Captain Arthur Phillip & The First Fleet Arriving At Botany Bay - 18th January 1788 

Captain Arthur Phillip Was Aboard "The Sirius" Which Was The First Of The 12 Ships To Finally Arrive At The Shores Of New Holland.
No White Men Had Ventured Along The Eastern Coastline Since Captain James Cook Had Sailed And a Mapped The Coastline On An Exloration mission Aboard "The Endeavour" In 1770. 
Sir Joseph Banks Was Also Aboard "The Endeavour" With Captain Cook Recording All The New Flora And Fauna That They Came Across On Their Travels Of New Holland. 
Both Captain Cook And Joseph Banks Had Described The a Eastern Coastline  As Hospitable. 
When Captain Arthur Phillip Arrived On The Shores Of a Botany Bay 18 Years Later.... What He Found Was Something Completely  Different. The Soil Was Sandy And The a landscape Was Semi Arid. There Was No Source If Fresh Drinking Water Nearby. 
Phillip Was Disappointed With What He Found At Botany Bay. The a Water a Was a shallow, So Ships Couldn't Get Close To The   Shoreline, So Everything Would Have To Be Done By Long Boat......  To Begin With.... 

Captain Arthur Phillip.... With Disappointment... And Maybe Even With  A Little Despair.... After Sailing Halfway around The Known World With 12 Ships Fully Laden a With Convicts, Crew And Supplies To Set Up A New Colony.... And After 8 Months At Sea.... There Was No Returning To Portsmouth.... Or Anywhere Or Any Port In The Known British World.. 
Once All 12 Ships Had  Got The Westerly Winds To Push Them
Into Botany Bay, He Decided He Woukd Take A Small Expedition Crew With Him To Try And Locate A Better Spot To Set Up The New Penal Settlement. 
As He Sailed Up The Eastern Coast Approximately 4 Nautical Miles, He Came To The Heads Captain Cook Had Mapped ain 1770, And a which He Hsd Named Port Jackson, But Captain Cook Never Ventured In Between The Heads At The Time. 
Arthur Phillip And His Expedition Crew Sailed In Approximately Another 4 Nautical Miles When He Came To The Modern Day "Farm Cove" & "Sydney Cove" 
Here He Found A Fresh Source If Running Water, Which a Would a Then Go On To Be Named The Tank Stream, The Bay a Was a Almost Naturally Perfectly Circular, With Deep Harbour Waters, So Ships a Were Almost Aboe To Sail Right To a The Shoreline. 
David Collins Wrote In His Journal - 
"The Spot Chosen, Was At The Head Of The Cove, Near The Run Of Fresh Water, Which Stole Silently Through A Very Thick Wood; The Stillness Of Which Had Then, For The First Time Since Creation, Been Interrupted By The Rude Sound Of The Labourer's Axe... And The Downfall Of Its Ancient Inhabitants. A Stillness And Tranquility Which; From That Day Were To Surrender And Give Way To The Voice Of Labour... And The Confusion Of Camps And Towns..."